Snake Catcher Hunters Hill

Service Locations

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If you need a snake catcher in Hunters Hill, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal attends Hunters Hill every day of the year — usually on site within 30 minutes.

Stay calm and keep your distance. Move children and pets clear of the area, but keep your eyes on the snake from a safe spot. The most useful thing you can do before we arrive is maintain visual contact — a snake that's been watched is far easier to find. You don't need to take a photo or identify the species — just watch where it goes.

About Hunters Hill

Hunters Hill sits on the peninsula between the Parramatta River and the Lane Cove River, with both rivers wrapping the suburb on three sides and the bushland of Boronia Park, Kelly's Bush and the connecting river foreshore reserves running through the centre. The character is one of Sydney's oldest established residential areas — heritage Federation and sandstone homes on substantial blocks, mature canopy, formal gardens, sandstone retaining walls, and a layout where almost every street ends at a river foreshore or a reserve. The peninsula geography, the extensive river foreshore, and the surrounding bushland produce a quietly reliable diamond python suburb, with water dragons throughout the gardens and along the river.

**Red Bellied Black Snakes, like this one, are one of the most common species we find in Hunters Hill.**

What we see in Hunters Hill

Diamond pythons The bushland connections through Boronia Park, Kelly's Bush and the Lane Cove River and Parramatta River foreshore reserves sustain a resident python population. The older roof cavities of the heritage housing stock are the standard callout — roof cavity work runs through the warmer months, with pergolas, garages and pool sheds also regular hiding spots.

Red-bellied black snakes are the most common snake we attend. They appear in properties with pools, ponds or frog-friendly gardens near the river foreshore reserves, particularly through summer.

Golden-crowned snakes turn up in the sandstone country and shaded leaf-litter gardens after summer rain. Venomous but their bite is medically minor.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Hunters Hill's everyday backyard wildlife. Water dragons in particular are common along the river foreshore, in heritage gardens with ponds and around pools. Many of the snake calls we attend turn out to be one of these — never an issue, always happy to attend and confirm.

Where snakes go on Hunters Hill properties

The hiding spots reflect the peninsula-and-river character: roof cavities and eaves for pythons, in pool sheds, garages and boat sheds, under decking and pergolas, behind hot water systems, around pool pumps and filtration boxes, in thick damp garden beds, along sandstone retaining walls, under garden edging, behind air-conditioning units, in formal hedge structures, and through the gaps between the house and the back reserve or foreshore boundary. We work through them methodically once we arrive.

After we leave

Every Urban Reptile Removal job ends with a brief walk-through of the property. We tell you why the snake was likely there, what's drawing it in, and what you can change to reduce future activity — short grass, no clutter along the fence line, stored items lifted off the ground, gaps sealed where rodents travel, and no pet food bowls left outside overnight. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.

Call Urban Reptile Removal — Snake Catcher Hunters Hill

For a snake catcher in Hunters Hill, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the pool shed, snake in the garage, snake near the river — every day of the year. Urban Reptile Removal.

About Chris Williams

Urban Reptile Removal is run by Chris Williams, a professional snake catcher and herpetologist with 35 years of experience across the Greater Sydney region. Chris has worked at Taronga Zoo and the Australian Reptile Park, founded Snake Ranch (Australia's largest reptile breeding facility), and has published seven books on Australian reptiles. He has been President of the Australian Herpetological Society since 2014. He licences and trains the catchers who attend jobs across the Urban Reptile Removal network. If you're calling Urban Reptile Removal, you're calling people who know what they're doing.